Author, as appears in the article.: Diaz-Serrano L; Meix-Llop E
Department: Economia
URV's Author/s: Díaz Serrano, Luis
Keywords: Schools Homosexual rights Homosexual parents Discrimination Correspondence field experiment
Abstract: © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. The recognition of homosexual rights is a controversial issue in many countries. Spain was the third country in the world (after the Netherlands and Belgium) to introduce a law recognizing homosexual marriage and the adoption of children by homosexual couples. In this paper, we examine for the first time whether schools are more hesitant about giving feedback to homosexual parents during children's pre-registration period in Catalonia (Spain). To do so, we designed a correspondence experiment to be conducted in schools. We created three types of fictitious couples-one heterosexual, one gay, and one lesbian-and sent emails to schools in which the couples' sexual orientation was explicit. Our results show that gay couples had a significantly lower (22 percentage points) call-back probability than heterosexual couples. No statistically significant differences in call-back probability were found between the lesbian and heterosexual couples.
Thematic Areas: Planejamento urbano e regional / demografia Pedagogical & educational research Education & educational research Education Educació Economics and econometrics Economics Economia Ciencias sociales Administração, ciências contábeis e turismo
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 02727757
Author's mail: luis.diaz@urv.cat luis.diaz@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0001-9479-5091 0000-0001-9479-5091
Record's date: 2024-09-07
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272775716302989
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Economics Of Education Review. 53 133-142
APA: Diaz-Serrano L; Meix-Llop E (2016). Do schools discriminate against homosexual parents? Evidence from a randomized correspondence experiment. Economics Of Education Review, 53(), 133-142. DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2016.06.001
Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2016.06.001
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2016
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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